Trump call Jan. 6 to ‘walk down to the Capitol’ prompted Secret Service scramble  —  Agency's actions are part of Jan. 6 committee probe into Trump's role in inciting the violent attack  —  Shortly before pro-Trump rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Secret Service agents scrambled …

National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - June 7, 2022  —  View as PDF: National Terrorism Advisory System Bulletin - June 07, 2022 09:00 am (pdf, 1 page, 295.54 KB)  —  Summary of Terrorism Threat to the United States  —  The United States remains in a heightened threat environment …

AOC Backs Challenge to Sean Maloney, Who Also Leads Democrats' Campaign Strategy  —  Primary contests are taking place in New Jersey, California, New Mexico, Mississippi, Iowa, South Dakota, Montana.  —  Primary voters in seven states, including California and New Jersey …

Scoop: CNN evaluating partisan talent  —  CNN's new boss Chris Licht is evaluating whether personalities and programming that grew polarizing during the Trump era can adapt to the network's new priority to be less partisan. … - For on-air talent, that includes engaging in respectful interviews that don't feel like PR stunts.

Exclusive Spectrum News NY1/Siena College poll finds New Yorkers are pessimistic about city's future and its mayor  —  The view of life in New York City is bleak, according to a Siena College poll of city residents conducted exclusively for Spectrum News NY1.  —  What You Need To Know

Kara Swisher Leaves the New York Times to Return to Vox Media  —  Kara Swisher, the prominent tech reporter, commentator and Recode co-founder, is leaving her role as columnist and podcaster at the New York Times to return to Vox Media.  —  Swisher will host a new interview show …

During Watergate, John Mitchell Left His Wife.  She Called Bob Woodward.  —  ‘Please nail him’: The untold story of how Martha Mitchell took revenge against her husband  —  There was no mistaking the voice on the other end of the phone line.  That twangy timbre.  Brash and sass.  Undiluted Arkansas Delta.

Potent Weapons Reach Ukraine Faster Than the Know-How to Use Them  —  KHERSON REGION, Ukraine — Since Russia invaded, NATO nations have upgraded Ukraine's arsenal with increasingly sophisticated tools, with more promised, like the advanced multiple-launch rocket systems pledged by the United States and Britain.

Axios Sneak Peek … 🌸 Situational awareness: Former Rep. Gabby Giffords (D-Ariz.) will open a gun violence memorial on the National Mall tomorrow at 10am ET — her first public appearance since the Uvalde, Texas, school shooting. … 🌎 Breaking: President Biden will unveil …

The President Needs to Stop Complaining  —  On the menu today: President Biden whines to aides that “everything landed on his desk but locusts,” and “if it's not one thing, it's another.”  It's a shame no one informed Joe Biden that the job of the president is difficult, and he would be expected to address multiple problems at once.

‘Bless her heart.’ Kemp ad slams Abrams for ‘worst state in the country’ remark  —  Almost as soon as Stacey Abrams called Georgia the “worst state in the country to live,” the Democrat's campaign expected the remark to be the center of new GOP attacks.  Gov. Brian Kemp's first TV ad of the general election cycle does exactly that.

California is about to experience a political earthquake.  Here's why  —  (CNN)An earthquake is building in Tuesday's California elections that could rattle the political landscape from coast to coast.  —  In Los Angeles and San Francisco, two of the nation's most liberal large cities …

The Washington Post's Descent Into Middle School Antics  —  And why we're building something new.  —  Let me tell you a story about the middle-school antics currently playing out at a once-great newspaper.  It goes a long way toward explaining why we started Common Sense and why we think it's so essential.

The evolution of Blake Masters … Blake Masters, an author and venture capitalist now seeking the Republican nomination in Arizona's high-profile Senate race, has cast himself as an outspoken immigration hawk who frequently inveighs against the dangers of “open borders” amid an influx of …

NC's lieutenant governor: ‘We are called to be led by men,’ not women  —  Christians are “called to be led by men,” North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson told a Charlotte area church congregation last month.  —  The comments were part of an extended critique of the social justice movement …

Abortion Activists Firebomb Pro-Life Pregnancy Center, Third Bombing in Weeks  —  Radical abortion activists who firebombed the office of a pro-life groups in Wisconsin and Oregon and who have vandalized over a dozen churches and pregnancy centers have struck again.

Inflation Is Poised to Ease According to These Three Key Indicators  —  Three of the key supply-side factors driving today's global inflation levels have already turned around, meaning relief could be on the horizon for shoppers worldwide.  —  Price Relief  —  Three big inputs to global inflation are seen easing from recent peaks

January 6th Intelligence Failure Timeline  —  Introduction to the Timeline  —  This timeline presents a detailed listing of intelligence reports and other warnings that were available prior to the attack on the Capitol of January 6, 2021.  Because this timeline is based solely on public …

Ilya Shapiro outclasses Georgetown Law  —  The June 6 resignation of conservative legal scholar Ilya Shapiro from the Georgetown University Law Center is a mark of shame for Georgetown and for academia in general — and a badge of honor for Shapiro.  —  Georgetown Law Dean William Treanor …

How the Left Learned To Stop Worrying and Love Domestic Terrorism  —  On the cusp of nonstop, around-the-clock (primetime!) coverage of the Jan. 6 committee hearings, a couple of domestic terrorists are actually getting their day in court, and it is informative to see how Merrick Garland's Justice Department …

The world's largest four-day workweek pilot just launched in the U.K.  —  Thousands of workers in Britain had another reason to celebrate after returning from a long weekend to mark Queen Elizabeth II's Platinum Jubilee.  They're participating in the world's biggest trial of the four-day workweek …

Wage gap between CEOs and US workers jumped to 670-to-1 last year, study finds  —  Report on 300 top US companies found CEOs making an average of $10.6m, with the median worker getting $23,968  —  The wage gap between chief executives and workers at some of the US companies …